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The change at the top of the Environmental Protection Agency won’t mean a dramatic shift in policy. If anything, President Donald Trump’s EPA could become even more effective at undoing Obama-era environmental policies under its new boss.

​​SPE is presenting a workshop to further understanding of HSE in drilling operations and sharpen knowledge of industry best practices.

Just 2 months after issuing more than a hundred licenses, the Oil and Gas Authority begins the process again for a whole new set of blocks.

A new survey of international experts has seen a swing of opinion away from mandatory removal of obsolete offshore infrastructure, reflecting an acknowledgment that offshore structures often develop into artificial reefs and form a part of the ecosystem around them.

The Watchdog Scout from Elecsys is designed to serve broad upstream applications. It has automatic calibration verification circuitry that ensures measurement accuracy, as well as rectifier interruption with a fail-safe dual-relay system. It has two-way cellular or satellite telemetry options, four analog measurement channels, dry-contact and pulse accumulation input …

Nexans appointed Christopher Guérin as its CEO. He has been with the company since 1997, and since 2014 he has served as a senior executive vice president, Euope and Telecom/Datacom, Power Access Business Groups for the company. Guérin began his career with Linde Group in 1995 before joining Alcatel Cables, which became Nexans in 2001, in the metallurgy division where…

The company announced it would “initiate the process” of marketing its UK Central North Sea fields as part of a portfolio review.

Aerial surveillance of oil and gas operations can help in decision-making and lead to quick and appropriate responses to deal with potentially detrimental matters.

Although improvements to drilling rigs have allowed drilling to depths greater than 20,000 ft, experience has shown that, the deeper the well, the higher the bottomhole pressure and more hydrogen sulfide gases the lease workers will experience.

Although carpal tunnel syndrome is a strong driver of workers' compensation costs, lost wages, lost productivity, and disability, there is still a limited understanding of its frequency and causes in working populations.

As operators look for cost-efficient ways to address the challenges in facility maintenance and deepwater exploration, autonomous underwater vehicles are being developed for complex data gathering and advanced tasks.

Improved understanding of the coupled natural/human coastal system will help promote resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems under rapidly changing environmental conditions, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.